An assessment of transmission disequilibrium between quantitative measures of childhood problem behaviors and DRD2/Taql and DRD4/48bp-repeat polymorphisms

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 495-502

  Marino, Cecilia ^a   Vanzin, Laura ^a   Giorda, Roberto ^b   Frigerio, Alessandra ^a   Lorusso, Maria Luisa ^a   Nobile, Maria ^a   Molteni, Massimo ^a   Battaglia, Marco ^a  

^a SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b Molecular Biology Laboratory   (Italy)

Author keywords

CBCL; DRD2; DRD4; quantitative transmission disequilibrium test

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE 4 RECEPTOR;

ALLELE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DYSLEXIA; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC RISK; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PILOT STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REWARD; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIAL PROBLEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

CHILD; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; READING; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D2; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D4; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 4444383265     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:BEGE.0000038487.80597.7e     Document Type: Article

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